Did You Know: “Baby Bells”

Apple has grown popular in the cell phone industry. iPhones are becoming standard for some places. Back in my parents day there were similar happenings. AT&T once had a monopoly here in America. The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T in 1974. It was agreed that AT&T would divest its local exchange service operating companies, in return for a chance to go into the computer business. The breakup of the old American Telephone & Telegraph into the new, seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC)s and the much smaller new AT&T: